Conservation Plan
We need to stop polluting and stop littering to conserve and stop the coral bleaching. When we litter and pollute, we also should not be bothering the sea life by fishing and bothering the coral. Throwing plastic bags, soda cans, food wrappers, and trash bags in the water can cause many different animals to get caught and get injured. A lot of these things like overfishing, overuse, polluting, etc. are putting numerous reefs at risk and if these reefs vanish, it would ruin the habitat of many species.
Coral Bleaching
Food Web-
Phyplankton-zooplankton-coral-fish fry-silver porgies/squid-barracuda
Algae-four eyed butterfly fish/spotlight parrot fish-baracuda
Threats to Ecosystem are pollution, deforestation, and zooxanthellae ( a type of algae)
The importance to coral bleaching is leaving the coral alone because fish live around and sometimes in the coral.
Here is a map of where coral bleaching happens. The yellow indicates where the coral bleaching happens.
Abiotic Factors
Temperature
Nutrients
Light
Salinity
Biotic Factors
Coralline Algae
Encrusting Bryozoans
Anemones
Crustaceans
Conservation Plan
We need to stop polluting and stop littering to conserve and stop the coral bleaching. When we litter and pollute, we also should not be bothering the sea life by fishing and bothering the coral. Throwing plastic bags, soda cans, food wrappers, and trash bags in the water can cause many different animals to get caught and get injured. A lot of these things like overfishing, overuse, polluting, etc. are putting numerous reefs at risk and if these reefs vanish, it would ruin the habitat of many species.
Bibliography
http://coexploration.org/bbsr/coral/lessons/lyndsey2.html
http://www.marinebiology.org/coralbleaching.htm